A bald eagle, injured and alone near the Chesapeake Bay, earned an A+ for the staff at Washington College after they made a daring rescue along the rocky banks of the Chester River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Two weeks ago, David Kramer noticed a post on Facebook asking if anyone could…
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Deadly poison from cone snails could be a newfound key to making better drugs to treat diabetes, according to a new study. The toxin, from one of the most venomous creatures on the planet, may also lead to new medicines for additional conditions caused by hormone disorders, said the researchers. They…
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Check out this real life ‘Flintstones’ home, a property built around a giant 200 million-year-old red rock. The two bedroom house in Larkspur, Colorado, has a unique style, with the boulder incorporated into the interior of the home—perfect for a geology (or Flintstones) fan. The home, which is on the market…
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The second-largest diamond ever unearthed was found in Botswana last week. Lucara Diamond, a Canadian company, found the huge 2,492 carat stone in the Karowe mine where they had deployed X-ray technology in their search. The diamond is the biggest reported in over a century, since the ‘Cullinan Diamond’ was discovered…
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A flying instructor in Alaska, has taken on a second gig as manager of an “airplane amusement park” complete with luxury accommodations built out of old, decommissioned aircraft. John Kotwicki says there’s little red tape interfering with getting old airplanes up to his flight school and converting them into Airbnbs to…
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A recent reinterpretation of the oldest extant Viking legal text in Scandinavia has shed light on the surprising societal sophistication of these raiders and traders. The text is from an iron ring found in Sweden dating to the 9th century, called the Varsa Ring Though an undoubtedly strange place to post…
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Happy 73rd Birthday to DC’s own Lisa Halaby, famously known to the world as Queen Noor of Jordan. The second-generation Washingtonian married King Hussein of Jordan, becoming the queen of that country. Noor is the longest-standing board member of the International Commission on Missing Persons. As of 2023, she is president…
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